AZ-900 Practice Test 1 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Which Azure feature allows you to prevent accidental deletion or modification of critical Azure resources?

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Azure Resource Locks. Azure Resource Locks are designed to prevent accidental deletion or modification of critical Azure resources by applying a lock at the subscription, resource group, or resource level. There are two types: CanNotDelete (prevents deletion but allows modifications) and ReadOnly (prevents both deletion and modification). This directly addresses the scenario of protecting resources from unintended changes.

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Azure RBAC

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Azure Policy

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Azure Blueprints

Question 2

A company has a policy that all Azure Storage accounts must have diagnostic settings enabled to send logs and metrics to a specific Log Analytics workspace. The governance team wants to automatically configure these diagnostic settings when a new storage account is created, without blocking the initial creation. The solution must not require manual intervention. Which Azure Policy effect should the team use in their policy definition?

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DeployIfNotExists. The DeployIfNotExists effect is correct because it automatically deploys a remediation task to configure diagnostic settings on storage accounts that lack them, without blocking the initial creation of the resource. This effect evaluates resources after creation and triggers a deployment to bring non-compliant resources into compliance, which aligns with the requirement for automatic configuration without manual intervention.

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Audit

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Deny

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Append

Question 3

A global e-commerce company has web applications deployed on Azure virtual machines in the West US and West Europe regions. The company needs a single, global HTTP-based entry point that can perform SSL offloading, route requests based on the URL path (e.g., /api to one backend pool, /images to another), and provide a web application firewall (WAF) to protect against common web attacks. Additionally, the solution must automatically direct users to the closest regional deployment to minimize latency. Which Azure service should the company use?

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Azure Front Door. Azure Front Door is the correct choice because it provides a global, HTTP/HTTPS-based entry point with SSL offloading, URL path-based routing to different backend pools, and a built-in web application firewall (WAF). It also uses Anycast-based routing to automatically direct users to the closest regional deployment, minimizing latency.

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Azure Traffic Manager

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Azure Application Gateway

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Azure Load Balancer

Question 4

A company wants to proactively identify Azure resources that are misconfigured and could lead to security vulnerabilities, such as virtual machines with open management ports or unencrypted storage accounts. They also need to get prioritized recommendations for remediating these issues. Which Azure service should the company use?

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center). Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center) is the correct service because it continuously assesses the security posture of Azure resources, identifies misconfigurations such as open management ports (e.g., RDP/SSH) or unencrypted storage accounts, and provides prioritized, actionable recommendations for remediation. It integrates with Azure Policy to enforce security standards and offers a secure score to track improvement over time.

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Azure Advisor

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Azure Policy

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Azure Blueprints

Question 5

Which Azure service enables you to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory?

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Azure AD Connect. Azure AD Connect is the correct service because it is specifically designed to synchronize on-premises Active Directory identities with Azure Active Directory, enabling hybrid identity scenarios. It handles password hash synchronization, pass-through authentication, and federation integration, ensuring users have a single identity for both on-premises and cloud resources.

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Azure AD Domain Services

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Azure AD B2C

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Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

Question 6

A company has an on-premises data center with a site-to-site VPN connection to Azure. The company wants to ensure that the connection remains secure by encrypting all traffic between the on-premises network and Azure virtual network. The connection must be established over the public internet. Which Azure service should the company use to create this encrypted tunnel?

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Azure VPN Gateway. Azure VPN Gateway is the correct service because it creates an encrypted site-to-site VPN tunnel over the public internet using IPsec/IKE protocols. This meets the requirement for a secure connection between the on-premises data center and Azure virtual network over the public internet.

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Azure ExpressRoute

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Azure Virtual WAN

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Azure Bastion

Question 7

A company has a critical Azure Storage account that stores immutable backups. The IT administrator wants to ensure that no one can delete or modify this storage account, even administrators with Contributor or Owner roles. The company still needs to allow read access to the data within the storage account. Which Azure governance feature should the administrator implement?

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Azure Resource Manager read-only lock. An Azure Resource Manager read-only lock prevents any user, including those with Contributor or Owner roles, from deleting or modifying the storage account while still allowing read access to the data. This lock operates at the management plane, blocking DELETE and PATCH operations via the Azure Resource Manager API, but does not affect data plane operations like reading blobs or files.

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Azure Policy with Deny effect

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Azure Blueprint with role assignment

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Azure role-based access control (RBAC) with Reader role

Question 8

A multinational company has multiple Azure subscriptions for different business units. The central governance team wants to define a standardized environment that must be automatically applied to every new subscription. The standard must include a set of Azure Policy definitions (e.g., allowed regions), a specific Azure RBAC role assignment (e.g., a contributor access for a central security group), and a preconfigured resource group with a virtual network. The team wants to package all these components together so that they can be deployed consistently and updated centrally. Which Azure service should the team use?

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Azure Blueprints. Azure Blueprints is the service designed to package together Azure Policy definitions, RBAC role assignments, and Azure Resource Manager templates (including resource groups and resources) into a single, versioned artifact that can be assigned to subscriptions. This enables organizations to enforce a consistent governance and compliance baseline across multiple subscriptions. Azure Policy alone cannot deploy RBAC assignments or resources. Azure Management Groups provide hierarchical organization and policy inheritance but do not deploy resources. ARM templates can deploy resources but cannot natively include policy or RBAC assignments as a cohesive package.

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Azure Policy

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Azure Management Groups

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Azure Resource Manager templates

Question 9

What does the term 'fault tolerance' mean in cloud computing?

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The ability to continue operating despite component failures. Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to continue operating without interruption when one or more of its components fail. In Azure, this is achieved through redundancy at multiple layers—such as using Availability Zones or redundant hardware—so that a failure in a single server, network path, or power supply does not bring down the entire workload. This is distinct from high availability, which focuses on minimizing downtime, whereas fault tolerance aims for zero downtime even during failures.

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The ability to scale resources up and down automatically

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The ability to recover data after accidental deletion

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The ability to deploy applications across multiple regions

Question 10

A company is developing a new web application. The development team wants to deploy the application code without having to manage the underlying virtual machines, operating systems, or runtime environments. They only want to focus on writing code and let the cloud provider handle the infrastructure, platform, and scaling automatically. Which cloud service model does this scenario describe?

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Platform as a Service (PaaS). This scenario describes Platform as a Service (PaaS) because the development team wants to deploy application code without managing the underlying virtual machines, operating systems, or runtime environments. PaaS provides a managed hosting environment where the cloud provider handles infrastructure, platform updates, and automatic scaling, allowing developers to focus solely on writing and deploying code. In contrast, IaaS would require managing VMs and OS, while SaaS delivers fully built applications, not a platform for custom code deployment.

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Function as a Service (FaaS)